Journal Leaves; Hovering Above Which Senses Have Worked Loose…

… we keep records of our observations in a private code in large journals.
we are saving them up for the day when our memories fail us. then we can read them thru to recall the details. they are an assurance that our days have been full and busy. we put black velvet covers on these books. they are so soft to stroke. just like the backs of our 8 black cats who often sleep like guardians in front of the cupboard as if they recognised the importance of its contents.

~ Joann Burns ~

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Heard; Journaling, Collage

Quick note: I am in the process of resurrecting my galleries.

Click on the “☛ Gallery!” in the menu running across the top of this page to find the new “Art Journaling 1” Gallery in the listing.

The main tab drops down to allow you to choose between eighteen live galleries:

Additional listed galleries will be added while I continue dusting each category. The next galleries will be the return of the “Copyright”

Walking In; Journaling, Collage

Art Journaling are personal journals filled with any combination of art, imagery and words using a collection of assorted mediums.

An Unexpected Visitor; Journaling, Collage

I release my art journaling once I am comfortable with what I have put on the pages. Consider these similar to what you might have kept in a tiny diary with a key. They are often created with reckless abandon with unlimited outcomes with only one rule: There are no rules. Most of the time I do not plan ahead of time what will go on the pages. The image shifts from the direction I think it will be going and I rarely end up on paper what began in my head.

Clearing After Dark; Journaling, Collage

Art journaling has a long-standing artistic tradition. Artists through the centuries have kept notebooks in which they sketched, practiced, experimented, and recorded themselves. Vincent vanGogh, Picasso and DaVinci were prolific sketchbook keepers.

Food For Thought; Journaling, Collage

Art journaling is an opportunity to capture feelings through more than just words, encouraging you to think outside of the box. It is sometimes clean and precise, or messy and full of intense emotion. It can be deeply personal and private, or light and fun, something you want to share with others. Each page is a new start, a clean slate for new emotions, memories and materials.

Un-Matched; Journaling, Collage

I consider my art journaling as dusting my brain between projects or when I switch mediums. When I’m taking a break and find myself on the sofa, I reach down into a journal for an hour or two. I usually have a few journals going; some to sketch in, some to collage in. I usually have at least one altered book in progression. One of the best things are when I make a mistake and mess up a page in a journal. Once done it is less likely to appear on my canvas which I will need to later correct. Even my appointment DayTimer calendar is full of sketches where I place mind maps of ideas that I don’t want to forget. (Sadly that makes me a collector of DayTimers which I have carted around with me with each move.)

It’s The Carrot; Journaling, Collage

You’ll see me add more pages to the above Art Journaling Gallery here on my site as I dust off old journals and share some pages with you. I know that there will always be more pages to add here as I have tried to intentionally stop Art Journaling in the past; thinking it might be a waste of time – but I have returned to it time and again.